The University Cultural Infrastructure Thesaurus: research and methodology

The action research methodology followed to form a thesaurus on university cultural infrastructure within the framework of an institutional project that encourages university research, dissemination of its results and student learning is explained. A thesaurus is the result of an investigation about the meanings of the terms in a specific area to foster understanding among the end users of an information system. The methodology developed allowed to achieve the objective of obtaining a thesaurus and encouraging the learning of an interdisciplinary group of students to meet the objectives of the project supported by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.